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title: Lifeboat choices — how Mova does on the tests · Religion ethics
description: Lesson 48 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 11 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Lifeboat choices

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**Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 4 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 48 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Your friend says, "In a lifeboat you should save the cleverest kids, cos they're worth more." What is the best reply?

- **1.** Save whoever is your friend, that's fair — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** You're right, cleverness is all that matters — no support
- **3.** Everyone has equal worth, so a fair method like drawing lots is better — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Clever kids are boring, so save the sporty ones because they can swim better — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Brother: "Only one of us can go to the match, I'm older so it's mine, end of." Which response is fairest?

- **1.** Agree a fair way, like taking turns or tossing a coin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Hide his shoes and his coat so that he cannot go to the match — score 2
- **3.** Shout and cry until Mum gives the ticket to you instead — no support
- **4.** He is older, so he must always get everything he wants — **← Mova's choice** · score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 46, line 2: «Christians believe God made the animals and saw that they were good, and gave people the job of caring for them, not spoiling them; St Francis of Assisi even c…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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"trolley problem's stupid, just pull the lever, 5 is more than 1 duh." What is weak about this?

- **1.** It is too long and careful — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Nothing; counting is always the full answer — no support
- **3.** It uses too much maths for an ethics question — no support
- **4.** It ignores the other side: some think doing harm is different from allowing it — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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A judge asks: "In the burning house, why save the pet?" Which answer is best-reasoned?

- **1.** It trusts me and depends on me, though I know the money could help many people — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Because the other team's answer was silly — no support
- **3.** Because paintings can't feel and charity doesn't matter — no support
- **4.** Because I said so, and that is my answer — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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A classmate of no religion says, "Self-sacrifice is just for Christians." What is a fair answer?

- **1.** Only soldiers have ever made a sacrifice — no support
- **2.** Self-sacrifice is wrong for non-Christians — no support
- **3.** Only Christians are ever really allowed to be kind and give things up — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** People of every faith and none admire giving things up for others — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 26, line 13: «In Lent many Christians give something up or take something good on.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «give up» (+4); the same doer «many christians» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Your cousin says, "Jesus died because he was caught by accident." How would a Christian put it right?

- **1.** Christians believe Jesus died in a shipwreck — score 5
- **2.** Christians believe Jesus died of old age at home in his own bed — score 5
- **3.** Christians believe Jesus never died at all — score 5
- **4.** Christians believe Jesus gave his life willingly for others — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 48, line 4: «Christians see Jesus giving his life for others as the greatest example of self-sacrifice; it is admired, but nobody is required to be a hero.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «jesus» (+3); the same action «give» (+2); the same thing acted on «life» (+2); the same circumstance (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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On a camping trip the older kids take all the marshmallows. "Tough, we're bigger." What would fair rules say?

- **1.** Bigger kids always get more, that's just nature and how it works — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Share them fairly, as being bigger gives no extra right — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The one who opened the bag owns all of them, every last one — no support
- **4.** Nobody should have marshmallows at all on camping trips — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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"It's too hard, there's no right answer, so I'll just do nothing." What is wrong with this?

- **1.** Even with no perfect answer we can choose the least bad one — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Nothing; doing nothing is always the safest choice in the end — no support
- **3.** It is wrong only because the teacher will be cross — no support
- **4.** It is right, because hard questions don't count — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Which statement about the trolley problem is true?

- **1.** Everyone agrees you must always pull the lever and save the five — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It was solved long ago and nobody discusses it — no support
- **3.** Everyone agrees you must never pull the lever — no support
- **4.** People still disagree about it, and it is a disputed question — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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"Last spot on the trip should go to Sam, he's my mate." What weak argument is this?

- **1.** A strong argument, as friends come first in fairness — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Favouritism: it ignores fairness to the others — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** A lottery, which is fair to everyone — no support
- **4.** An argument from need, which is always fair — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Who should get the one medicine, a strong adult or a very sick child? Which answer reasons best?

- **1.** Whoever gets to the doctor's door first should have it, no questions asked — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The child, because the adult is rude — no support
- **3.** Consider who needs it most and who it would help most, and choose fairly — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The adult, because adults are always more important — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Which of the following procedures is most generally regarded as fair for the allocation of a single remaining place among several equally entitled claimants?

- **1.** The award of the place to whichever claimant first applies force — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** The award of the place to the claimant of greatest physical strength — score 6
- **3.** The preference of the claimant most favoured by the allocator — no support
- **4.** The drawing of lots, every claimant thereby enjoying an equal chance — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 41, line 2: «Imagine your friend knocks a vase off the teacher's desk, and the teacher asks the class who did it. You want to tell the truth, and you also want to stand by…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «friend» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Identify the statement that most accurately characterises the dilemma commonly termed the trolley problem.

- **1.** It concerns the conveyance of goods within a retail establishment — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It concerns the number of persons a vehicle may lawfully carry — no support
- **3.** It concerns a question upon which all moral philosophers are agreed — no support
- **4.** It concerns whether harm to one person may be permitted in order to save five, and remains disputed — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Pursuant to Christian teaching, select the response that most accurately states the place of self-sacrifice in the moral life.

- **1.** It is a strict duty incumbent upon every person in every circumstance whatsoever — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It is admired as exceeding duty, the death of Jesus being its supreme example — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It is prohibited, being contrary to the care of oneself — no support
- **4.** It is held to be of no moral significance whatsoever — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Where a dilemma admits of no clearly correct resolution, determine the course which sound ethical reasoning recommends.

- **1.** The choice is to be delegated to whichever person is most popular — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The least injurious option is to be chosen and the reasons honestly stated — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The choice is to be made at random without explanation — no support
- **4.** All action is to be withheld so that no responsibility may attach to anyone — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/e4/)

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